- New client-side i18n via React Context (useI18n, tArray, I18nProvider)
- Catalog ships 21 locale stubs; only zh-CN/en/ja have reviewed translations
- Header language switcher (globe icon + short label) before settings gear
- All hardcoded Chinese UI text migrated to keys: typewriter, options,
hints (with embedded gear icon via dangerouslySetInnerHTML), settings
panel, footer/about, play page hints
- AI output language follows user-selected locale via trailing one-liner
directive appended to Architect/Writer/CharacterDesigner/InsertBeat
user messages (preserves system-prompt cacheability)
- Per-locale separator rule: zh uses middot between every glyph; en/ja
use plain spaces
- Option value → i18n key suffix maps preserve Chinese as the underlying
identifier so analytics unions and STYLE_MAP keys stay byte-stable
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>